For decades, that meant promoting the democratic process by covering important issues and airing contrasting viewpoints.
Often these leaks were self serving, but they could be useful in airing additional viewpoints, acting as trial balloons in testing out ideas with a constituency more diverse than the West Wing.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One the other day, Obama aired a viewpoint that sounded as if it might have come from Emanuel.
The overwhelming value of this site is that it airs different viewpoints--that's what makes a market -- and it sometimes brings forward unique stories one cannot find anywhere else.
Free-to-air radio and TV are unique in that they use a part of the radio spectrum committed to public use and free of charge.Is it too much to ask that the owners of radio and TV stations, should they choose to air opinion, air diverse viewpoints?
Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, which airs white nationalist viewpoints, made his name leading a site that peddles racist and misogynist conspiracy theories.
Warren also made a clear reference to Trump naming Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, whose site regularly airs white nationalist viewpoints, as a senior White House adviser.
Paley might have been unhappy partly because of the Fairness Doctrine, which required networks to air opposing viewpoints, something with little appeal to sponsors.
Such diverse viewpoints were aired in the landmark 2003 UK Parliamentary Working Group on Human Remains, which produced a code of practice for museums.
With that, you're ready to go talk about the problem as a process, where different viewpoints are aired and evaluated directly.
John Scanlon, secretary general at Cites, admitted that the consensus for several years on banning international trade in horn and ivory was beginning to tear, and "completely opposite viewpoints" would be aired in Johannesburg.
